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We were seeing Windows Update error 80345006 on several Windows Server 2012 R2 servers and none of the fixes I found helped. ESET Server AV was on each of these servers but I had already temporarily disabled protection but with no effect.
Later, we had decided to uninstall ESET AV just to see if that helped. But first we tried manually turning off options and the
first one we tried resolved the problem!
ESET >> Settings >> Advanced Settings >> WEB & EMAIL >> Disable Application protocol content filtering under PROTOCOL FILTERING
This apparently disables all of Web Access … [Read more...]

It is basic knowledge that the ORDER BY clause will pretty much sort our data using available columns in a SQL Server table in ascending or descending order. But what if we want to allow a user of an application to resort items (rows) in a table in their own desired order where ascending or descending on existing columns would not work? For example, we might want to present a list of items and allow them to re-sort the items in any order they desire. How do we store and retrieve that data in a SQL Server table so that it displays in the order expected? This article will provide one … [Read more...]

Brrr...I am jumping into the icy waters of Lake Lanier Saturday, February 20th.
No, I’m not crazy - I’m raising money for the Special Olympics of Georgia and I need your help!
Each year the Johns Creek Police Department (JCPD) participates with groups all over the US in the Polar Plunge which is the largest fundraising effort for the Special Olympics. It is presented by the Law Enforcement Torch Run of Georgia.
Since I volunteer with JCPD in the Citizen Auxiliary Police Services (CAPS), I am participating in the 2016 Polar Plunge to raise money for the Special … [Read more...]

Suppose you want to allow your users to re-order a set of rows in a SQL Server table. Once the user has defined the new order, you need to save that order in SQL Server so that you can re-display the rows in the new order. But how can you accomplish this? You probably added a new column to the target table appropriately named sort. But how do you update this sort column so that it can reflect the new order? Let's assume we have 3 rows as follows and we have ORDER BY sort in query so that they display as...
IDNameSort
1Red1
2Blue2
3Red3
and then our user re-orders the … [Read more...]

If you need to calculate age in days using SQL Server Transact-SQL, you have lots of options. When your age should be displayed in elapsed "days" for example, you might think that using the DAY attribute in DATEDIFF() would be the way to go. But you may want to use HOUR rather than DAY if your calculations must be accurate.
Why? Because with DATEDIFF() using DAY, calculations are based on midnight boundaries. This means that your number of days will change if you are before or after the midnight boundary. For example, your actual time-span may have only been a couple of hours … [Read more...]

My new Macbook Pro 2013 is great and most of the time it performs flawlessly. However, it recently began crashing nightly while in sleep mode. Each morning I see the report that it crashed overnight and restarted. I am working now isolate the cause.
The only changes after this started occuring have been upgrading from a single Dell 24 inch monitor to dual Dell 27 inch monitors plus the addition of an Anker 9-port USB hub. I also have VMWare Fusion 6.0 running a Windows 7 VM (my development environment) but it has crashed with the VM suspended so its looking more like the hub or … [Read more...]

Liz and I decided we would spend memorial day hiking a trail for fun and exercise. Rather than our typical jaunt up to the north Georgia mountains, we decided to try a smaller but beautiful trail only a few miles away in Roswell, GA. This was a fitting hike for Memorial Day as the trail and Vickery (Big) Creek are home to a spillway dam that was a valuable asset to the South during the Civil War, having powered the mill wheel that was built downstream at the now abandoned mill ruins.These mills were leading manufacturers of materials used for the Confederacy.
The warm day provided … [Read more...]

If you use a laptop very often then you are fully aware of how hot they can become on the bottom. As a result, the stores are full of devices popularly referred to as “Laptop Cooling Pads” or “Chill Mats”. They are USB powered fans in a portable mat that you place between you and your laptop or on a desktop. They protect your lap from the warm, bottom surface of a laptop and also keep the laptop cool which is important to prevent overheating. This becomes especially important when you are using one of the more high-end models with powerful CPUs and graphics capabilities. Just like their … [Read more...]

Perimeter Church is a large Presbyterian PCA church in north Atlanta. They make their sermons available from their web site and via pod-casting using iTunes. The sermons are some of the best, scriptural based teachings you will find. Most are from lead teacher Randy Pope who founded the church over 25 years ago. This article explains how to access the online sermons both in streaming format from the church's site and via downloading MP3s directly to your computer using your browser, Outlook 2007 or any RSS reader.
Podcasting means the you can listen to the sermons online using a computer or … [Read more...]

Liz chose to spend her birthday hiking and so after some research, we chose to hike to Panther Creek Falls. The falls are located in Habersham County, GA and the trail follows the creek in for over 5 miles. We parked at the Panther Creek Recreation area lot just off of Old Historic Hwy 441 and from there it was about 3.7 miles to the falls heading south east from the parking area. The trail takes you under the 441 overpass and follows the creek into a beautiful and quiet area of the forest. The scenery changes significantly along the entire hike so you are treated to new surprises. … [Read more...]